Permanent silences can still occur at the discretion of Support. If you are permanently silenced, you will not be able to use any of Kingdoms at War chat options, with rare exceptions. Resetting your profile does not remove your silencing history.

Lifting a Silence
Moderators cannot lift a silence. Only ATA Support can actually lift a silence. Don't lie to them; they can (and will) bring up records of exactly what you said.

If you believe your silence was unfair, please send a ticket in to support with full details. Posting WC or Forums trying to incite popular support will not help your case.

If you are messaging about a permanent silence, you will be given a specific date when you can appeal. It is not wise to send multiple emails before this date, as it won't look good when your case is reviewed.

What do silencing tools look like?
We cannot just silence for no reason. Moderators must fill out a form describing your offense. Please note the post below is not silenceable, and is merely an example.

First, we spy a TOU infraction, and press the little flag next to your name:

This brings us to the silencing tools.

Selecting one of these reasons will silence the user, send a pop-up notification the next time you open the app, and issue a PM to the user detailing their infraction.

This process is the same when Mods silence for wall posts by following the red flag. After that is done, we press the red dash button and remove the post.

However, silencing for a bad status message requires mods to go to your profile, scroll to the bottom, and press "clear status message" as a warning, or press mute. This brings us to here:

[title2] Bypass [/title2]
A bypass means you have avoided the language censor to make a filtered word show. This also applies to account names.The bypass censor is updated intermittently. A word that may have once been OK may no longer be acceptable. The best way to test is by posting in your ally chat or asking a mod.

Let's pretend Blue is a censored word.

• Bypass using letters such as í ù èExample: Blùe

• Inserting numbers instead of letters (1, 3, etc) Example: B1ue

• Using dashes, asterisks, underscores, or other keys to make a filtered word show up Example: Bl-ue, Bl**, Blue_ue, or (given context) "B Off"

• Inserting spaces to make the word recognizable Example: B l u e

• Deliberately misspelling a censored word to make it recognizable Example: Bluu

Note: If the word is caught by the censor and shows as a blank space (" yeah", for example) it is generally not silenceable unless it is in an indecent context.

Tip: Type naturally and you won't be silenced for bypass.

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[title2]Indecent Conduct [/title2]This section prohibits indecent content, and that which is harmful, torturous, vulgar or obscene (such as referring to sexual violence).

• Prohibits racism and ethnic intolerance: Example: Everyone from _____ country should be exterminated.

Note: You can share this at your discretion, but you cannot publicly request it off another user. You also cannot use it to solicit other users.

What you CANNOT post:

• Anyone elses personal information, such as phone number or address
• Contact information for third party apps or other games, such as a gamertag, Xbox Live ID, or Pal ID
• Your surname
• Your city/town
• Your address
• Your phone number
• Includes soliciting this personal information from other players

Example: "Girls over 18 wall me” is silenceable.

Note: selling/buying accounts is also silenceable under this section because you are requesting personal information.

World Chat Spam
• Lone Spammers:
Allowed 2 same/similar posts per 5minutes. The third post and beyond is silenceable.

• Eb Advertisement:
Each clan is allowed 4 same/similar posts in 5minutes. The 5th post and beyond may be silenced.

• Group Spam:
This includes clan/alliance pride. 4 same/similar posts in 5 minutes is permitted. The 5th post and beyond may be silenced. It does not matter if you are in the same alliance while in a different clan, mods will silence off the content.

• Chain Posts:
1, 2, 3 or a, b, c style posting where it is a single letter posted in a chain.

Wall Spam
• 20 or more same/similar posts on a wall. The wall owner has a responsibility to report this.

[title2] Third Party Advertising [/title2]
• Discussing other ATA games such as PIMD, Perfect Drift, and Smash Monsters is fine. Advertising an app that is not made by ATA is not ok: Example: "Everyone download RandomApp from the App Store! It's awesome!"

• Disclosing or asking for information for another app/game which can be used to identify you. Example: "My gamertag for RandomApp is Player2015! Let's play!

• Discussing PlayStation, Xbox, pc games, or social networking affiliated with KaW is fine as long as you are not actively recruiting from them. This example is fine to post: Example: Who has bought the newest Destiny game on Xbox?

[title2] Illegal Activities [/title2]
• Refers to encouraging or promoting illegal activities like cocaine, movie piracy, and prostitution.
• Discussing, encouraging, accusing, or engaging in botting.
• Offering people nobility discounts, asking for udids, or attempting to buy or sell ATA accounts. Example: Follow me for cheap nobility, I have a cool deal with the Oracle!

[title2] Impersonation [/title2]

• Calling yourself variations of a moderators name
• Calling yourself KaW_admin or impersonating ATA staff.
• The deliberate and malicious impersonation of another player.

Normally, we can tell if it's inadvertent by a new player, or an intentional impersonation to defame/mislead people about the owner of that account.
Includes impersonating the Update Bot, such as: Example:
[update:] Daphnia has been silenced.
[update:] I am the true king of KaW.
***UPDATE*** Daphnia has cast an Astral Ward in BlackHand

[title2] Harassment [/title2]
Harassment silences normally happen when people cross the line in banter.
• Includes threats to harm someone in real lifeExample: "If I ever find out where you live, I will kill you."

• Includes claiming a player is cheating and making other false claims against them in an attempt to defame them. Example: KaWPlayer2015 uses bots to play his purchased accounts.

• Players making malicious personal references in deaths/suicides in someone's family

Tip: If you are being harassed, please talk to moderator who you feel comfortable with. We can operate as your voice to support. No one should be a silent victim.

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[title2] Discrimination [/title2]
• This refers to using discriminating/offensive language to people based on their gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, or disability. Example: All unnatural ____ deserve to be shot, I can’t stand them.

[title2] Inciting [/title2]
• Trying to trick, incite, or coerce others to break ToU (often targeted at new players), is against ToU. You can be silenced for this. This includes making it part of a CF condition.Example: "I dare the next person to bypass."
or "If you bypass on WC in front of the mods I will stop hitting you."

[title2] Threatening ATA [/title2]
• If you threaten to damage ATA with hacking/reverse engineering, it is the same as threatening a person and is prohibited. Apes are people too... nearly.

[title2] Cash Transaction [/title2]
Don't offer money for things, and don't try and get real money off people through farming or otherwise.Example: I'll give you $50 Itunes card if you join my clan

[title2] Account Sale [/title2]
Accusing people publicly of buying and selling accounts, or trying to sell your own (or someone else's) account is strictly prohibited. That information should be sent directly to support for investigation. Example: "KawPlayer2015 bought his account off K98279! He didn't even build it!

[title2] Complaints [/title2]
Yes, complaining or protesting a silence is silenceable too. Silences are strictly between the player and Support. All the WC posts in the world aren’t going to change anything. We don't like to enforce this one except in extreme cases, but it is silenceable. Example: #FreeKaWPlayer2015

This includes making a forum threads protesting silences: Example: Why was I silenced!!?

[title2]Forum Violations[/title2]
Forums are subject to the TOU, so all of the above rules also apply in forums, in addition to forum etiquette and Code of Conduct. Forum etiquette encourages players to post in a friendly and positive manner. The Code of Conduct includes:

• Excessive off-topic threads Such as when two players derail a thread with a personal dispute.

• “Flooding” the forum with similar meaning messagesThis is basically the forum equivalent of WC spam.

• Mods have no lives and are online 24/7
• Mods don't sleep
• Mods are responsible for stopping people from farming each other.
• Mods are "paid" to do their job
• We all live in a basement (this myth is yet to be debunked)

Moderator Facts

• We are highly active, but are not online 24/7
• We don't enjoy silencing people, but it is our duty uphold ATAs policy to ensure a safe gaming community for everyone
• We tend to encourage people to learn all game mechanics (which naturally includes farming and war)
• We silence irrespective of whether someone is a friend or not
• We are community volunteers and are not paid. We only receive a silencing toolkit and speakers in order to moderate.

[title2]If in doubt...[/title2]
Ask us!! If you are unsure on any of these points, please do not hesitate to contact a moderator to explain it to you. Or, go straight to the top and ticket the friendly ATA Support team.

The fewer silences, the better. Most of the time, if you type naturally, you should be fine.

Do you understand these rules better than anyone, and think moderating Kingdoms at War is for you?Apply here!

Happy KaWing!

**NOTE** This is a repost from Daphnia. Some information has been edited to be more correct with modern day Kaw but let me know if there are any glaring errors.

It might be a nice sidenote for what ISNT moderated is because its behind closed doors, and your choice to expose yourself there. You can leave a clan, block someone, or drop an ally. Only thing you can't control is if you are hired, and your owner is putting things into your ally chat.

Accusing people publicly of buying and selling accounts, or trying to sell your own (or someone else's) account is strictly prohibited. That information should be sent directly to support for investigation.

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Might want to add trying to buy accounts is prohibited. Seems like you've covered all other aspects, except someone asking to buy accounts